A new manufacturing pounamu gallery in Waikato ... in the world and a Maori gramophone, will be unveiled. This story originally said that Sands Carving Studio was the Waikato’s only locally ...

In one tradition, when Maori died, their prized pieces of pounamu were buried with them ... when Mahuika’s people opened a carved meetinghouse, their first ceremonial house in 140 years.

The Māori carvings at Lake Taupo’s Mine Bay ... Hokitika was well known among Māori as a place of pounamu, also known as greenstone, a nephrite jade valued for its durability and beauty.

Rather than being nearly weightless glass, it is carved from one chunk of hard, cold nephrite jade. A retro green cassette was hewn from pounamu (the Māori word for several types of hard green ...